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recorded, namely, on the pollard beeches in EjDping Forest, 

 in September. 



^ TJie Canadiayi Naturalist.'' — No. 4 of the New Series, 

 dated August, 18()4, contains an excellently-written and most 

 interesting paper by Mr. G. J. Bowles, on the occurrence of 

 Pieris Rapse in Canada, from which the following facts ap- 

 pear : — 'l"wo lists, very carefully prepared, of Canadian but- 

 terflies have been published; the first by Mr. Kirby, in 1837 ; 

 and the second by Mr. Gosse, in 1839; in neither of which 

 does the name of the species occur ; but long since those 

 dates Mr. Bell and Mr. D'Urban have published complete 

 lists of butterflies found on the Lower St. Lawrence and in 

 the vicinity of Montreal, in which the only Pieris men- 

 tioned is P. oleracea : the date of these lists is 1857-8-9. 

 The first specimen of Pieris Rapse was taken in 1859-60, 

 and the species had so increased in three years that its ra- 

 vages in 1863 were very great, and means were being devised 

 to arrest its progress. The paper is transferred at length to 

 the pages of the ' Zoologist ' for December, as I consider it of 

 great value in proving the natural spread of a species over 

 an extended and new area. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



58. Argynnis Laihonia near Ramsgate. — At a Meeting of 

 the West Kent Natural History Society, on Wednesday, Oc- 

 tober 26th, Mr. W. Groves exhibited a specimen of Argyiniis 

 Lathonia which had been captured by him on the 17th of 

 September, 1864, in a chalk-pit at Cliffs End, about two 

 miles from Ramsgate ; it was in a somewhat wasted con- 

 dition. — J. Jenner Weir, Hon. Sec. of West Kent Nat. Hist. 

 Society ; October 28, 1864. 



59. A'ote on Vanessa Urticce. — The larvae of Vanessa Ur- 

 ticae, and, I surmise, of the genus Vanessa in general, are 

 remarkably exempt from the attacks of Ichneumons. Thus 

 I collected (at random from various places), last July, about 

 forty nearly adult larvae of this insect. Every one of these 

 became a puj.ia, and emerged in due time. I observe that in 

 rearing butterfly larvae, if from insufficient or inappropriate 



